"Law school admissions for the 2018-2019 academic year were particularly competitive, with applications up 8.7 percent from the previous year, according to data from the Law School Admission Council. Increasingly, applicants find themselves rejected or placed on the waitlist by schools that they expected to be easily admitted to because they relied on previous years’ scores to predict a realistic range of schools.
Because this trend is largely attributed to a reaction to Trump administration policies, it’s not expected to subside in the upcoming cycle, and it’s entirely conceivable that the number of applicants will increase even more.
Therefore, applicants should build a school list that includes not only programs that they are fairly confident would admit them and a few reach schools but also a few safety schools. Here are tips on how to choose safety schools as a law school applicant." …